CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Awards long-lists

Now THESE are long-lists – 68 titles for the Carnegie Award and 64 for the Kate Greenaway Award. As my colleague and friend CazApr1 said on her blog I too am a bit put out by the lack of Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne. HSB was excluded because it had first been published as an adult novel rather than a simultaneous adult/YA publication. There are some excellent titles on the list, I even know some of the authors – but will try not to play favourites. I will have a look at who I think will make it onto the short-list at a later date.

Books are nominated by librarians that are members of CILIP (The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals), the nominated books are then checked for eligibility before being placed on the long-list. You can view the criteria for the Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Awards here: Carnegie Award Criteria and the Kate Greenaway Award Criteria.

I am going to start my Shadowing of the Awards now to flex my reading and reviewing muscles in preparation for becoming a judge in 2014 when there will probably be over 100 titles on each list.